Past their unbelievable athletic achievements, Angel Reese, Gabby Thomas, and Frances Tiafoe have one different factor in frequent—they’re all in Vogue’s Winter subject. This week, the style publication revealed Reese and Thomas as the duvet stars of its annual winter subject. Specializing in the interplay between sports activities and vogue, the difficulty highlights the methods through which athletes use model as a type of self-expression.
“It’s all the time been each: basketball and vogue,” Reese advised Vogue. “However I used to be a vogue girlie from younger too. I used to be all the time in my mother’s closet, placing on her stuff. I appreciated to hold a handbag. Hair performed. I needed to look put collectively. I nonetheless do.”
Reese’s ardour for vogue shined each on and off the courtroom. Whereas enjoying for LSU, the basketball participant shortly turned identified for her glamorous gameday seems, incomes her the nickname “Bayou Barbie.” Leaning into her love for sports activities and private model, Reese made a trendy WNBA draft announcement with Vogue in April 2024.
Along with her hopes to excel within the WNBA, Reese, who grew up watching exhibits like “America’s Subsequent High Mannequin” and has attended vogue occasions just like the Met Gala, hopes to someday mannequin in a “actual vogue present,” like Paris Style Week.
When she’s not serving to Staff USA win a gold medal on the Olympic monitor, Thomas enjoys dipping her toes into quite a lot of industries. From using her Harvard diploma within the medical discipline to attending vogue exhibits, the Olympian says she’s been having fun with her tour of the style world.
“I’ve been so in athlete-world, I really feel like I’m simply beginning to get a way of what I like,” Thomas defined. “Not that I don’t have my very own model. I do, however then I placed on one thing like that white Carolina Herrera gown that I wore to the present, and it’s like, ‘Oh, oh-kaay.’ Since then, I’ve been doing extra ‘fairly’ seems. And extra polished. Identical with the hair and make-up, I’m rising with that too.”
Not like Reese and Thomas, who’ve leaned into attending vogue exhibits, and many others., top-ranked tennis participant Tiafoe’s appreciation for vogue is extra private. With no real interest in attending business occasions like Style Week, the tennis star showcases his private model by means of his sartorial selections on the courtroom.
“I needed garments to match [my passionate playing style], ? Loud colours, daring colours, stuff that pops,” Tiafoe mentioned, explaining his emphasis on his gameday outfits. “Don’t get me incorrect, I’m battling as exhausting as I can for each level. However what we do, what we put our our bodies by means of, on the finish of the day, it’s within the service of entertaining folks [and fashion is a part of that].”
